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ISO 26262: A Brief Intro

The design of the safety functions in these vehicles is governed by the international standard ISO…

Automotive Cybersecurity Introduction

There are several industry guidelines, standards, and formal training courses related to automotive cybersecurity, but we…

Fail Safe Regulators

The humble airset filter regulator does not get a lot of love.  Relegated to a lonely…

Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (Part 3)

[Author’s Note: This series of articles predates my joining the AV industry. It may have some…

SIS Survivability and Fire Safety

In my experience, few subjects cause more confusion and misunderstanding in the instrumentation and SIS arena…

Human Error and Systematic Failures

Today I want to highlight an excellent paper “Improving Barrier Effectiveness Using Human Factors Methods” recently…

Bayesian Coin Flipping

The following is a quick example illustrating how the Bayesian updating process can be used to…

Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (Part 2)

[Author’s Note: This series of articles predates my joining the AV industry. It may have some…

Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (Part1)

[Author’s Note: This series of articles predates my joining the AV industry. It may have some…

Uncertainty in SIL Calculations

Some time ago, I ran across a complex Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) that had a proof…